Law Dictionary

The term “active status” means the status of a member of a reserve component who is not in the inactive Army National Guard or inactive Air National Guard, on an inactive status li

“Active storage” means that amount of water in reservoir storage, exclusive of bank storage, which can be released through the existing reservoir outlet works;

One in which active duties are to be performed by the trustee with reference to the conveyance, evidencing an intention that the primary use of the property shall be in the trustee

The term “active uranium or thorium processing site” means— (A) any uranium or thorium processing site, including the mill, containing byproduct material for which a license (issue

those traffic control devices activated by the approach or presence of a train, such as flashing light signals, automatic gates and similar devices, as well as manually operated de

“active workings” means any place in a coal mine where miners are normally required to work or travel;

Where the pattern of conduct visualized by the Act is the use of independent contractors or agents from the field of private enterprise, the inference is strong that 'activities' m

The term “activities of daily living” includes tasks such as eating, toileting, grooming, dressing, bathing, and transferring.

In this paragraph, the term “activities promoting responsible fatherhood” means the following: (I) Activities to promote marriage or sustain marriage through activities such as cou

For purposes of this section, the term “activity” includes acquiring or retaining any investment. / The term “activity” includes acquiring or retaining any investment. / For purpos

For purposes of this section, the term “activity not engaged in for profit” means any activity other than one with respect to which deductions are allowable for the taxable year un

The term “activity of daily living” means an activity regularly necessary for personal care and includes bathing, dressing, eating, getting in and out of bed and chairs, walking, g

real, substantial and just damages, or the amount awarded to a complainant in compensation for hls actual and real loss or injury, as opposed on the one hand to "nominal" damages,

The term “Act of 1976” means the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). / “Act of 1976” means the Act entitled “An Act to provide for t

The contract of the agent is the contract of the principal, and he may sue or be sued thereon, though not named therein; and notwithstanding the rule of law that an agreement reduc

A legislative act, attainting a person. See Attainder.

The appointment of a receiver under such circumstances is among the most common examples of an 'act of bankruptcy'.

To cut short a sentence by an act of clemency is an exercise of executive power which abridges the enforcement of the judgment, but does not alter it qua judgment. To reduce a sent

An act of positive motion as distinguished from an omission.

A treaty may supersede a prior act of Congress, and an act of Congress may supersede a prior treaty.

In Scotch law. The act of breaking through any restraint imposed by deed, by covenant, or by a court. Karnes* Equity, Pref. 1 Id. 228.

In Scotch practice. The act extracted by the clerk, upon any one's acceptance of being curator. Forbes, Inst. pt. 1, bk. 1, c. 2, tit. 2; 2 Kames, Eq. 291. Corresponding with the o

“act of espionage” means an activity that is a violation of— (A) section 793, 794, or 798 of this title; or (B) section 4 of the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950.

The term “Act of March 3, 1881”, “Act of February 20, 1905”, or “Act of March 19, 1920”, means the respective Act as amended.

A common carrier assumes all risks except those caused by the act of God and the public enemy. One of the instances always mentioned by the elementary writers of loss by the act of

The usual name of Cromwell's Constitution vesting the supreme power in a Protector and two houses of Parliament, passed March 2.~>, 1657.

In Scotch law. A statute by which the incarcerating creditor is bound to aliment his debtor in prison, if such debtor has no means of support, under penalty of a liberation of his

An instrument drawn up by a notary public, after protest of a bill of exchange, when a third party is desirous of paying or accepting the bill for the honor of any or all of the pa

an act of incorporation was a contract between the State and the stockholders

An act or decree absolving a public officer or other person who has used doubtful powers or usurped an authority not belonging to him from the technical legal penalties or liabilit

An act Indicating insolvency, and subjecting the party to insolvency proceedings. See "Insolvency."

The term “act of international terrorism” includes— (A) any act substantially contributing to the acquisition of unsafeguarded special nuclear material (as defined in paragraph (8)

What Congress intended was that a business in receivership, or conducted under court order, should be subject to the same tax liability as the owner would have been if in possessio

A result, like the devolution of a title, produced by operation of law without the design of the parties concerned.

Every man of sound mind and discretion is bound by his own acts, and the law does not permit him to do any thing against it; and all acts are construed most strongly against him wh

The term “Act of March 3, 1881”, “Act of February 20, 1905”, or “Act of March 19, 1920”, means the respective Act as amended.

The term “Act of March 3, 1881”, “Act of February 20, 1905”, or “Act of March 19, 1920”, means the respective Act as amended.

The failure to perform an act.

See Statute.

Act of physical violence.—The term "act of physical violence" means any act involving— (A) an assault or other infliction or threat of infliction of death or bodily harm

The term “act of prostitution” means a sexual act or sexual contact (as defined in section 920(g) of this title (article 120(g))) on account of which anything of value is given to,

An accident against which ordinary skill and foresight could not guard. McCoy v. Danley, 20 Pa. 91, 57 Am. Dec. 680. Equivalent to "act of God," see supra.

It cannot be said, that the prohibition was intended only for valid and regular surveys. They did not require legislative aid. It was known that the military district abounded with

In Louisiana law. An official record of a sale of property, made by a notary who writes down the agreement of the parties as stated by them, and which is then signed by the parties

The statute of 12 & 13 Wm. III. c. 2, limiting the English

An act done by the sovereign power of a country, or by its delegate, within the limits of the power vested in him. An act of state cannot be questioned or made the subject of legal

The doctrine precludes any review whatever of the acts of the government of one sovereign State done within its own territory by the courts of another sovereign State

The statute of 1 Eliz. c. 1, declaring the supremacy of the crown over the ecclesiastical authorities.

The term “act of terrorism” means any act that the Secretary determines meets the requirements under subparagraph (B), as such requirements are further defined and specified by the

The mere fact that a deed has the corporate seal attached, does not make it the act of the corporation, unless the seal was placed to it by some one duly authorized.

There is 'a distinction between the act of the law proper and the act of the obligor, which exposes him to the control and action of the law.' While the former exonerates, the latt

The act of the subject can never be the act of the sovereign; unless the subject has been commissioned by the sovereign to do it

The term “act of trafficking” means an act or practice described in paragraph (9) 1 of section 7102 of title 22 . / The term “act of trafficking” means an act or practice described

The statute of 13 & 14 Car. II. c. 4, enacting that the book of common prayer, as then recently revised, should be used in every parish church and other place of public worship, an

The statute of 5 Anne, c. 8, by which the articles of union between the two kingdoms of England and Scotland were ratified and confirmed. 1 Bl. Comm. 97.

the term "act of war" means any act occurring in the course of— (A) declared war; (B) armed conflict, whether or not war has been declared, between two or more nations; o

The statute otherwise called Statutum de Mercatoribus, enacted 11 Edw. L

An ancient English statute, so called because enacted by a It is otherwise known as statutum mercatorum or de mercatoribus, the statute of the merchants. It was a statute for the c

A form of summary proceeding formerly in use in the high court of admiralty, in England, in which the parties stated their respective cases briefly, and supported their statements

A Roman law term denoting a pleader or advocate; the plaintiff in an action.

A defendant is exonerated by the failure of the prosecution to prove its case. See 31 L. R. A. (N. S.) 1166.

The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff. Hob. 103.

actornaj. In old Scots law. An attorney.

In old Scotch law. Attorney; an attorney. Skene de Verb. Sign. voc. "Actornatus." ACTRIX (L,at.) A female actor; a female plaintiff. Calv. Lex.

An advocate should not be heard who argues contrary to law.

The plaintiff must follow the forum of the thing in dispute. Karnes, Law Tr. 232; Story, Confl. Laws, § 325k; 2 Kent, Comm. 462. ACTORE NON PROBANTE REUS ABsolvitur. If the plainti

Such nonfeasance is not an 'act or transaction' within the meaning of section 66 (28 USCA § 125).

A female plaintiff.

8 Co. 146b; Broom, Max. 301.

The acts thus enumerated are usually termed acts of bankruptcy, and may be considered as tests of insolvency, showing conclusively the inability of the trader to pay his debts, or

Legal memoranda made in the admiralty courts in England, In the nature of pleas. For example, the English court of admiralty disregards all tenders except those formally made 'by a

Such events as are known as the accidents of major force, or fortuitous events, or the acts of God, always constitute an implied condition in every such engagement.

the mere act, to meet an emergency, of the officer, conceding, under the circumstances stated, that it was a wrongful act, cannot be held to be the act of the United States, and th

Certain rules of court made by judges of the Scotch court of session.

In Scots law. Ordinances of the court of session regulating its procedure.

For purposes of this section, the term “acts of terrorism” means an activity that involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws

“Acts to regulate commerce” means subtitle IV of title 49 and the Communications Act of 1934 [47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.] and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto.

Real, in opposition to constructive or speculative, something "existing in act;" State v. Wells, 31 Conn. 213; real as opposed to nominal; Astor v. Merritt, 111 U. S. 202, 4 Sup. C

The term “actual 1985 emission rate”, for electric utility units means the annual sulfur dioxide or nitrogen oxides emission rate in pounds per million Btu as reported in the NAPAP

costs ordinarily incident to operation of a business, and not limited to costs without which rehabilitation would be impossible

The term “actual and necessary expenses” means expenses incurred in fact by an authorized traveler as a reasonable consequence of official travel.

Preservation of the opportunity to prove actual bias is a guarantee of a defendant's right to an impartial jury.

The fair and reasonable cash price for which property can be sold in the market. It is synonymous with "fair cash value." 193 111. 474.

In statutes of frauds. An open, visible, and unequivocal change of possession, manifested by the usual outward Bigns, as distinguished from a merely formal or constructive change,

the actual compensation, meaning thereby monetary compensation, payable to the trust by the amount of any enhancement in the value of the remaining trust lands

Unlawfully and forcibly compelling one to do an act.

The Declaratory Judgment Act of 1934, in its limitation to 'cases of actual controversy,' manifestly has regard to the constitutional provision and is operative only in respect to

As used in subparagraph (A), the term “actual cost” means the cost to the borrower of the improvement, including the amounts paid for labor, materials, construction contracts, off-

In this section, the term “actual cost of attendance” has the meaning given the term “cost of attendance” by section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1087 ll ).

The term “actual dairy production margin” means the difference between the all-milk price and the average feed cost, as calculated under section 9052 of this title .

The damages recovered by an injured party have always been limited to his 'actual' damages. There is nothing to indicate that the Congress intended to have 'actual' interpreted as

he is bound to furnish evidence by which the jury may assess them... Actual damages must be calculated, not imagined, and an arithmetical calculation cannot be made without certain

The measure of the damages to be recovered against infringers prescribed by the act of 1836 as well as by the act of 1870, is 'the actual damages sustained by the plaintiff.' Where

It is held commonly to apply to the ceding of the corporal possession by the seller, and the actual apprehension of corporal possession by the buyer, or by some person authorized b

An eviction coupled with a physical expulsion. 167 111. 98.

fraudulent transfer schemes effectuated without any false representation to a creditor and concludes that a debt for goods may "sometimes" be "obtained by" a fraudulent transfer sc

Definition.—In this section, the term "actual injury" includes the loss of interest at commercial rates compounded from the date of injury.

whether a person is "aware of " information.4 See Intel Corp.

The general doctrine is that knowledge of an existing conveyance or mortgage is, in legal effect, the equivalent to notice by the registry.

the basic principle underlying common-law remedies that they shall afford only compensation for the injury suffered